I believe tab previews hinder usability because the larger overlay including the thumbnail is often accidentally invoked, covering the page or browser controls I am trying to use. In my experience using tab previews, they look cool but aren't actually useful since invoking them takes a longer hover than it would take to just switch tabs.
On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 1:52 PM, dhhwai <[email protected]> wrote: > > You can add a STAR to the following bugs to be notified of updates: > > http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=5617 > > http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=5569#c7 > > On Jan 13, 12:28 pm, Itai <[email protected]> wrote: > > We have a number of discussions which mention Tab Previews as a > > desirable feature. To get everyone to the same page: A Tab Preview is > > a small image which shows the contents of a tab and appears when the > > mouse is placed over any non-selected tab. The present state is that, > > when the mouse pointer is over a tab, Chromium shows the title of the > > page in a standard tooltip. > > > > Tab Previews are useful for identifying tabs without selecting them > > when either tab titles are not descriptive enough or when enough tabs > > are opened that their titles cannot be read. At its simplest > > implementation, the Tab Preview feature simply adds a the thumbnail > > within the tooltip which is shown for non-selected windows. A Tab > > Preview is not shown when hovering over the selected window's tab > > because it would be redundant and may hide portions of the viewed web > > page. In Chrome, the thumbnail added could easily be the same > > thumbnail we use for the most visited pages in the New Tab Page. > > > > The most important question is: Can someone find a reason why this > > would hinder usability? That is, if we added this feature, would there > > be a compelling reason to turn it off? > > > > The second question, which is something we can do even after > > implementing the simple approach, is can we do better and make tab > > previews even more useful? > > > > Being partial to Tab Previews, my personal take is that the preview > > itself is extremely useful because titles quickly become too small to > > display with 10 to 20 tabs and that this feature helps identify tabs > > quickly. It would be nice if we could take this further and offer > > previews elsewhere too. > > > > For previously visited links for example. It happens that I go back to > > a page and forgot which link had what I was looking for. If hovering > > over a visited link, it would be a lesser problem. It would not be > > done for non-visited links for latency issues and not to trigger > > unwanted requests. > > > > Bookmarks are another place where previews would be very useful, if I > > don't bother editing bookmark titles, a lot of bookmarks end up with > > similar titles like 'homepage' or 'welcome'. Yahoo's bookmarking > > service offers such previews based on when they last crawled the site. > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Chromium Discussion mailing list: [email protected] View archives, change email options, or unsubscribe: http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-discuss -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
